Chocolate, Chilli & Lemongrass Tart

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Preparation info
  • Serves

    4–6

    • Difficulty

      Medium

    • Ready in

      1 hr 20

Appears in
French Countryside Cooking

By Daniel Galmiche

Published 2021

  • About

Infused with lemongrass and chilli and made with the finest cocoa, this superb chocolate tart has a rich texture, a silky silhouette and lovely crisp pastry, which is a combination bound to make you happy. I almost decided not to give any of the details away, but it was just too good to keep to myself!

Ingredients

For the Chocolate Pastry

  • 90 g/ oz/¾ cup plain (all-purpose) flour

Method

  1. To make the sweet pastry, sift the flour and cocoa powder into a bowl. In a separate bowl, beat together the butter, sugar, salt and egg yolk until light and fluffy. Sift in the flour mixture, then fold it through gently until it just begins to form a dough, then stop! You don’t want to work this pastry at all. Wrap in cling film (plastic wrap) and put in the refrigerator f